Improvement in carriage-poles



H. W. PAINTER.

Carriage Pole.

Pate nted A 14. 1866 fizz/2% UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY W. PAINTER, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRlAGE-POLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,] 79, dated August14, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. PAINTER, of West Haven, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inCarriage-Poles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawin gs and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to beafull, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure 1 an under-side view of a pole embodying my improvement; Fig. 2,a cross-section, and in Fig. 3, a longitudinal section of the tip end ofthe pole.

My invention relates to an improvement in carriage-poles designed toprevent the saggin g of the pole, as also to increase its strength, andwhereby the pole may be made. much lighter in its appearance; and myinvention consists in placing a metal bar in a groove formed on theunder side of the pole and extending nearly or quite its entire length.

To enable others to construct my improvement, I will proceed to describethe same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A is the pole, of ordinary form. Upon its under side I form a groove toreceive a flat bar, B, which said bar extends nearly or quite the lengthof the pole. At intervals pins C are passed through to secure the barinto the pole, as seen in Fig. 2.

D, the tip, of common construction, is placed on over the end of thepole, covering the end 7 HENRY NV. PAINTER.

WVitnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, ALTSIE J. TIBBI'rs.

